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Boss' show brings on glory days

By JAY CRONLEY World Staff Writer
Published: 4/10/2009 2:25 AM
Last Modified: 4/30/2009 2:53 PM

It turned out to be a "so what?" night downtown at the Springsteen concert Tuesday.

Parking spots across the street going for $20?

Those nasty-looking dark streaks are running down from the windows all around the new BOK Center?

Hot dog carts supplying the meals nearest the center at $4 per?

Some seats on Row D, Section 121, having come almost completely loose from their moorings?

Another show on a weeknight causing morning-after headaches?

Long lines at the women's restrooms?

Some friends up there dancing in the ritzy sky boxes?

No regular exits off the floor level?

Long walks from free parking?

A party of two parting with $200 for tickets, thanks in part to stinging handling charges?

So what?

It was one of those occasions when the show was worth about anything you might have preferred not to have happened, or to have taken place slightly for the better.

This is what: It was a spring night perfect for a five-block walk.

The hot dogs from the carts across the street were pro-style and worth the money, with the mustard placed under the meat to prevent dripping.

The beer-drinkers had happy feet.

Here's the way drinking too much at a concert will work for some.

They will continue to drink two large beers too many until a legal or health or personal issue intervenes, or until a wreck happens. If the concert enthusiast lives, he

or she will then get some CDs of a favored concert performer and will think: I can't believe what I've been missing, how good that music really is!

But this concert was something like going to a ballgame or a sports bar, with this interesting demographic showing up noticeably: groups of guys.

Whereas Springsteen himself remains appealing to all varieties, his current music and image seem to do for males what the Dixie Chicks and their style do for women: speak to them in great numbers.

Then, again: Sometimes this city makes you sit up and say: Huh?

Going by what I have seen of drawings for the new baseball park, it could be so close to Interstate 244 that the team could be renamed The Truckers.

Ballpark parking, oh yeah, that, it's still on the drawing board.

But since we have the big building downtown for all the best shows, hops, skips and leaps of faith are easier to grant on other projects.

Time was, you couldn't always get a Springsteen tape or CD around here; the other night he was downtown. By JAY CRONLEY World Staff Writer

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	Report Comment Arbythree, Tulsa (4/10/2009 10:41:07 AM) Sounds like a feel good night all the way around. Wish I had been there!
	Report Comment okie ridgerunner, small town (4/10/2009 10:32:59 PM) Sounds like a bad night out. I am glad i was not there.

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